Even before that, however, we’ll witness other semiquincentennial celebrations: of the April 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord that ignited the Revolutionary War, of the June 1775 battle of ...

In 1784, the United States was a new country, being governed not by the Constitution but by the Articles of Confederation.

The Patrick County Board of Supervisors addressed a request to petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a ...

After the war, Joseph Willis illegally married an Irish woman and was set to inherit upwards of 3,000 acres from his father’s ...